

TRAVELS IN BRAZIL. 



CHAPTER I. 



DEPARTURE FROM LIVERPOOL. — ARRIVAL AT PERNAM- 



BUCO. THE TOWN AND HARBOUR OF RECIFE. 



THE GOVERNOR. — THE TRADE. 



TF my health had not required a change of 

 climate, I should not perhaps so soon have 

 accomplished the wish I had often expressed of 

 leaving England for a short time. An imme- 

 diate removal was judged expedient ; and as the 

 ports of Spain and Portugal were either closed 

 to British subjects, or at least not in a state to 

 be visited by an invalid, I determined upon 

 Brazil ; to which my friends agreed. — I fixed 

 upon Pernambuco, because a gentleman, who 

 had for many years been acquainted with my 

 family, was about to embark for that place, and 

 from the favourable reports of the people and 

 climate which I had received from several per- 

 sons. On the 2d November 1809, I set sail 

 from Liverpool in the ship Lucy. 



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